HistoryFor those of you who are new, and don't really know the past of TangoWorldWide, this section is yours. TangoWorldWide was spawned 1/2/2014 for it's first time, the forums went online with 10 people, the steam group was created and 20 joined, and the first server was put online. Today we sit at 10,000+ users registered on our forums, 21,000+ users in our steam group, and 25+ servers on our network (this number moves pretty often). TangoWorldWide was originally a CS:GO team, that was really shitty... but that's OK because @rizky talked me into starting a community. Together, we founded this organization -- a much different one, but one with the same morals and values at our roots which TangoWorldWide upholds today. Over the first year, we had a lot of old friends re-unite from previous communities and endeavors, people like @the1speck@Alex joined us, we were lucky enough to have @Lt.DoomY and @Mobz merge in, and we powered on to becoming one of the major gaming communities on steam.

"Retro" First-Year logo(s) mash-up*

Chapter 4Today marks the day that we move onto a new year of TangoWorldWide. With 2017 behind us, we move towards the future. There is no dispute that in 2017, TangoWorldWide declined across the board as far as statistics are concerned. We've had a drought of new staff members who are excited to participate and help us grow, we've had numerous issues, and plenty of setbacks through the course of the year. Quite a few changes blew up in our face, and in general there were many times we found things in shambles. But we are far from done.

We've never invested much in the whole new year new us mojo, nor do we intend to. We're going to continue to follow our same foundation we started with, but re-write on top of it. So take this post as a game-plan for 2018, and let's plan our future.

First and foremost, staff will continue to be developed. Lazy staff will be purged. We will go with the staff who best prepare TangoWorldWide for it's future. Those who are both dedicated, and hard working.

Server quality will be a main focus in 2018. We've been slowly rebuilding parts of our network throughout 2017, but in 2018 massive upgrades and changes will be made.

More relevant policy will be defined, giving our staff and our users access to necessary resources to help empower a better TangoWorldWide.

Community relations will be improved, by putting resources in heavily developing a better Community Leadership and Mentorship.

Community feedback will be our most important voice. Heavy feedback in some areas will result in change, it's simple. The people of Tango help write it's future.

Better usage of board design. Major changes will come into play, where the board makes decisions as advocates for the people of the community.

We will keep moving forward. We're a community of people who love our organization, and want to be apart of it for a long time. We will work together to continue to push Tango over the top.

During the last four years, a lot has changed in TangoWorldWide. We've seen hundreds of people come and go, but it's the people who have decided to stay that continue to help us achieve new goals, and power on. We've had our highs, and we've had our lows over the last few years, but this next Chapter of TangoWorldWide will continue to shape us into a well directed and well presented organization. Things will continue to evolve in our organization. As administrators, we've made our fair share of bad choices, but we will learn from them. Community feedback will be crucial in our future growth, quality will continue to be our primary focus across all servers, and we will continue to build a better TangoWorldWide.

Thank you all for being apart of our organization, and thank you for the staff that work their asses off every day to try and make this community more efficient and more welcoming. Now is the time to get involved, now is the time to recruit, and pursue self-growth up the ranks, as we will have hundreds of changes this year, maybe even thousands. One thing will never change: our want for a dedicated and creative staff, and I welcome many of you to be apart of it. We will continue to improve our community for years to come, and we thank you for being apart of it.

MentionsI will not do much tagging this year, a lot of you know who you are, you know everything you've done to get TangoWorldWide where it is today. To my Executive Board, I thank you very much for working hard. Without you, this place would not be possible. You all play a part in a big picture, and it's an amazing feeling to know TangoWorldWide will always have your focus and support. @LolZ you're the new guy to the team, but you've been apart of it for the better of a year. You have worked your ass off, and you have achieved greatness in this community. xTcR was lucky to have you, we were lucky they lost you.

To my final thank you, @Alex it has been a crazy seven years as friends.. enemies... whatever we've been over the last 7 years. I would never want anyone else to be the COO of any organization I was in charge of. Without you this place would not be the same. You have done more for Tango than you are recognized for, but you never complain, you keep doing what you need to so we can stay growing. I would not want to run this organization without you.

I hope to see you all when we reach Year 5, because it will mean we're still growing, and still becoming something more.

-balon Chief Executive Officer

* The 'Mash-Up' logo will be replaced by our 4-Year logo + 4-Year badge upon completion from our primary designer. They currently are having some technical issues

It feels like time as flew by since year 3, @balon you made an amazing place and I am so honored to be apart of it, there were ups and downs but I am glad I am sticking around for more to come! Congrats everyone for everything you do to make tango what it is today.

Even though I was only here since the beginning of Summer, this community has changed my life in numerous ways

Instead of just normal basement dwelling I get to say I'm in a clan while doing it!!!

No, really though, what has happened in Tango feels like a lot longer of a time than it actually has been, and I've changed in a lot of ways since I've joined. I still intend of coming back as a member eventually, because even if I've failed Tango previously I still feel inspired to give it my all and actually help Tango this time around.

Thank you for creating the wonderful community I've spent way too much time on, and for supporting what I did while I was in staff, even if I had doubts that turned out to be right, you believed I could do it and now that time has passed I finally believe I can do it, even if I'm a bit late to the call with that one.

I want to see Tango continue to move forward and grow, so lets have a better year than last, I hope to be here when year 5 rolls around

I enjoyed my entire 2017 here and hope to see Tango grow more in the future. Sad I can't be a part of the staff team anymore, but I will continue to be here and support any future endeavors. Good luck everyone.